I met your niece there, and recognized her at once, though she was a little slip of a girl when I knew her last.

Her father and I were in Montreal together." "God bless my soul," Mr.Bullsom exclaimed, in much excitement.

"It's your lawyers, then, who have been advertising for Mary ?" Lord Arranmore bowed.
"That is so," he admitted.

"I am sorry to say that I cannot induce your niece to look upon a certain transaction between her father and myself from a business-like point of view.

I think that you and I, Mr.
Bullsom, might come to a better understanding.